Bonnard links
John Wyver writes: You have just three further weeks to experience the exceptional exhibition Pierre Bonnard: The Colour of Memory at Tate Modern, which closes on 6 May. Having executive produced a BBC2 film about Bonnard back in more
John Wyver writes: You have just three further weeks to experience the exceptional exhibition Pierre Bonnard: The Colour of Memory at Tate Modern, which closes on 6 May. Having executive produced a BBC2 film about Bonnard back in more
John Wyver writes: Watching expertly-performed musical theatre in tiny spaces is often exhilarating, and so it proves with Maggie May at the Finborough Theatre. Led by Kara Lily Hayworth and James Darch (above, photo by Ali Wright), the more
John Wyver writes: Back in the summer of 1986, writer Sandy Nairne, director Geoff Dunlop and I were in New York filming our 6-part Channel 4 series State of the Art. Sandy had conceived the second programme as an exploration more
John Wyver with links to recent stuff about what we can still just about call television. The cinematic in contemporary television and media: a strong set of selected clips with accompanying short essays from in media res:
moreThis Sunday, 17 March, Battersea Arts Centre are hosting a very special one-off showing of all the films made for the series Performance Live as collaborations between BAC, Arts Council England, BBC Television and a host of cultural organisations and more
For The New York Times, Martha Schwendener has written a fascinating response to the inaugural show at the new Brant Foundation in the East Village (until 15 May) of some 70 works by Jean-Michel Basquiat. 'Jean-Michel Basquiat' at more
John Wyver writes:Tomorrow night (less than four weeks from the scheduled B-Day), at 18.15 on Tuesday 7, I'm chairing a panel at BFI Southbank (tickets here, although there are not many left) with actor Cherie Lunghi (who is more
Following yesterday's list of recent links to interesting articles about photography, here's another pull-together, this time of pointers to pieces about the medium formerly known as television. The wonderful image of the early television studio at Alexandra Palace was more
Tomorrow night, Friday 1 March, BFI Southbank, under the title 'European Connections', begins a rich season of British television productions of classic European plays. A time there was when both the BBC and ITV produced exceptional presentations of more
I have written a book (well, almost) - and now that it is on Amazon and the website of the publisher Bloomsbury - I feel I can make a modest announcement. Publication is not until next June, but it more